Brule River

The Brule River flows in the former channel of a larger river which once flowed in the opposite direction and drained melting ice from glacial lake Duluth. The receding glacier created Lake Superior and also carved the valley now occupied ...

Chilhowee

On Abram’s Creek, near the site of the early Cherokee village, Chilhowee, William and Robert James established a water-powered cotton and woolen spinning and weaving factory. A charter for the business was issued in 1846 and the mill was evidently ...

The Franklin Springs

For the first hundred years. Franklin Springs existed as a famous health resort. The Springs, as well as the County, was named for Benjamin Franklin. Three types of water flowed strongly from these springs, mineral, sulphur and freestone.

Preceding the Civil ...

William D. "Big Bill" Haywood

1869 - - - - - 1928

Co-Founder and General Secretary-Treasurer,

International Workers of the World, 1905-1921

Secretary-Treasurer,

Western Federation of Miners, 1901-1906

Haywood’s visionary leadership as Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners laid the groundwork for his historic initiative, together with ...

Vail / Vail Pass Country

Marker Front:

Vail Mountain stood bare just days before the resort’s 1962 grand opening. As luck would have it, a late December storm blanketed the area, dumping several feet of powder on the untracked slopes. Fortune just kept smiling on the ...

Father Flanagan Historic House

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Courtesy hmdb.org

West Seneca Gatling Gun

Model 1897 10 Barrels 30 Caliber #1075

Built by Colt Firearms Mfg. Co.

Delivered to the U.S. Army August 29, 1898

Donated to West Seneca In 1922

Supervisor Henry C. Lein

Restored in 2003 By Ron Fultz Roger Harris

Ed ...

Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan

Leabeg, Ballymoe

Founder of Boys Town

Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.

"The work will continue, you see,

whether I am there or not,

because it is God's work, not mine."

Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan

Mol an oige

agus tiocfaidh si

Ni neart go cur le cheile

Unveiled by Fr. Val Peter

Executive Director

5th ...

Right Reverend Monsignor Edward J. Flanagan

1886 - 1948

In memory of

Rt. Rev. Monsignor

Edward J. Flanagan

Founder of Boys Town and

Recipient of Variety Clubs

First Humanitarian Award

His dictum:

"There is no such thing as a bad boy"

Marker is on Heroes Boulevard south of Flanagan Boulevard, on the left when traveling ...

Stilley-Young House

Builders completed this house for Frank Stilley, a cotton broker from Louisiana, and his wife Minerva Fox Stilley shortly after they married in 1860. They owned the house until the early 1880s. By 1885, former slave Charlie Young purchased the ...